My favourite Loup puzzle so far – although I haven’t yet done the Castle of Horror, I’m expecting some stiff competition from that one 🙂 As you can see, I couldn’t be bothered to connect the two halves properly. Now that I have proper puzzling tables both in Dortmund and in Helsinki this isn’t a problem anymore, but I used to do all my puzzling on sheets of cardboard.
Loved the image, enjoyed the puzzle, but the problem with Educa is pieces fitting where they don’t belong, and that was definitely a factor here. Overall still a very nice puzzle.
So, I managed to finish my Dublin puzzle. Even with the different patterns, it was still pretty difficult, and I ended up relying on the image quite a lot. The only thing that really annoyed me was that pieces wouldn’t stay together, I felt like they’d spring apart as soon as I looked in their direction. Even that became less of an issue as I had larger and more stable “islands” as I progressed.
The pieces were very thin, but I liked the cut, it was a bit whimsical, but not in a way that made the puzzle more difficult. There was never any danger of a piece fitting where it didn’t belong. My favourite piece type was the one with two tabs really close to each other. Somehow the pieces made me think of the three-eyed fish near the nuclear power plant in the Simpsons 🙂
Some of the sharp corners on the pieces were a bit frayed.
Overall a very enjoyable puzzle, even though the quality wasn’t all that good.
It will be old photos for a while now, a friend is visiting me in Dortmund 🙂
I’ve never seen a collage with book covers that I didn’t like, and this was no exception 🙂
A fun puzzle, but quite challenging as well. I prefer my cartoon puzzles a bit less busy 🙂 Sorry about the glare, all my photos of this puzzle are horrible!
I tend not to buy puzzles with grayscale images, but this was a gift from my brother’s family, a souvenir from their trip to Ireland. The box is just big enough to hold the pieces, which I always appreciate (most puzzle boxes are far too big).
The puzzle is grid cut, but some of the pieces are funny, the one on the left looks like it was really badly cut, and many pieces have “extra” knobs or holes.
I started with the easiest bit, the text, and it was very enjoyable, although the pieces are a bit thin and don’t hold together that well. I don’t think pieces fitting where they don’t belong is going to be a problem, though.
I’ve never been a big fan of Gibsons, but every now and then an image is so good that I cave and buy one anyway. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised this time, there was no sign of the old problem of pieces fitting where they don’t belong. It may just be the image, of course, but I don’t think so. Based on this I would even be prepared to try an image with a large area of the same colour. Still not a fan of the waxy finish, but that’s a minor quibble.
I loved this puzzle, it was fun from start to finish.
Very easy and enjoyable collage. I think this was my first Cobble Hill puzzle.
This was one of those glow-in-the-dark puzzles. I have no photo taken in the dark, though, and my phone camera probably isn’t good enough to make that work anyway. Text is always fun in a puzzle, whatever the language 🙂
Hilarious image by Marino Degano of a dog and the fleas who live on him. My favourite is the tourist bus bringing more fleas for a vacation. There’s also a reference to German football: the dog is wearing the logo of Hamburg based team St. Pauli, and the skull and crossbones on the scarf are also a reference to St. Pauli, as they are known to fly the Jolly Roger. Marino Degano was born in Italy, but he grew up in Germany, and he now lives in Strasbourg (France) and Hamburg.
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